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About 18,000 people _ including members of Congress, all their aides, presidential appointees and even the president and vice president _ would lose the employer-provided health insurance under a condition that Republicans proposed for averting a government shutdown.

It's a political perfect storm: The pairing of a government shutdown with the rollout of a big chunk of the health care law is illustrating all sorts of partisan and cultural tensions that are roiling America. Big government vs. small. The Republican Party's identity crisis. Sharpening political divisions among Americans. And plenty more.

First slowed, then stalled by political gridlock, the vast machinery of government clanged into partial shutdown mode on Tuesday and President Barack Obama warned the longer it goes "the more families will be hurt."

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